Word: starred
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...true spirit of winter one ought to skate, I think, and that not in a rink, but on a lake or river, where one can look off to the hills and woods and feel the keen air. Now that club skates, star and acme skates, have come into fashion, we need not pinch our feet with the barbarous straps or numb our fingers in making our preparations to get on the ice. One difficulty in skating there certainly is in Cambridge: the only available lake is Fresh Pond, and it is almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth...
...could see down the Canal, the successive lines of light, rising from the water's edge to the top of the palaces, pointed out their cornices and windows. In the city a single light from the top of the Campanile seemed like a rising star, while above it all the dim light reflected from the water against the sky seemed like a halo...
General Leggett's statement, in the Washington Star, that he is convinced that his son's death was an accident for which no one can be blamed has since appeared...
...like many a shooting star...
...little star, from the wing of its mother...